11/22/2008 03:11:51 PM EST
Bush leaving more wreckage
posted by guttermutt
Bush is trying to ruin more things and leave more of a mess. He's not only securing permanent federal jobs for his administration lackey's, he's putting them in federal agencies that they aren't qualified to be in. Obama needs to keep a close eye on this, even if the Democrats get that filibuster-proof 60 seat Senate, Bush's cronies will be screwing things up in all the federal agencies. You can pass all the legislation you want, but what good does that do if the federal agencies responsible for carrying out that legislation are working against you?
Check out the story from thinkprogress.org
Top scientist says Bush’s ‘burrowing’ of political appointees will ‘leave wreckage behind.’ Yesterday, the president of the nation’s largest general science organization
railed against efforts by the Bush administration to give political appointees “permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be ‘to leave wreckage behind.’” James McCarthy, who heads the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called the “
burrowing” of people without scientific backgrounds into science-related jobs “
ludicrous“:
“It’s ludicrous to have people who do not have a scientific background, who are not trained and skilled in the ways of science, make decisions that involve resources, that involve facilities in the scientific infrastructure,” said James McCarthy, a Harvard University oceanographer who is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “You’d just like to think people have more respect for the institution of government than to leave wreckage behind with these appointments.”
McCarthy particularly questioned the qualifications of Todd Harding and Jeffrey T. Salmon, who received civil service positions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Energy Department’s Office of Science, respectively.
